Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 35276, Bickford Dyer, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Dyer Bickford
S 35276
CONTENTS
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5902.)
Maine
Bickford Dyer
Private
Jan'y 77 - 3 years
Mass't line
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 15 of June 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 22 of Jan'y 1819 and sent to Benjamin Greene Esq. South Berwick, Me.
Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1818 Am't \frac{20}{30} $ 21.33 Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 March 1819 48. —
$69.33
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Baldwin Cumberland Co.
Copied from the original
Not in the order of the Pension Roll

037. Bickford Dyer
(5902)
Cumberland
(March 1819)

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. DISTRICT OF MAINE, ss.
At a District Court of the United States begun and holden at Portland — within and for the District of Maine, on the first Tuesday, being the sixth — day of June and by adjournment from day to day , on the seventh — day of June — in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty, before the Honorable ALBION K. PARRIS, Judge of said Court.
ON this seventh — day of June — in the year above written, personally appeared in open Court, the same having “the power of fine and imprisonment,” and being a Court of Record for said Maine District, Bickford Dyer — aged seventy three — years, resident in Baldwin — in said District, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows, viz. as a Private — in the company commanded by Capt. Smith — in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Joseph Dose — in the line of the State of Massachusetts on the Continental Establishment, as is more particularly mentioned and described in his original declaration, made on the fifteenth day of June — A. D. 1818, and on which said declaration his Certificate of Pension, numbered 5902 — was granted. And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818; and that I have not since that time by gift, sale, or in any manner disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an Act of Congress, entitled “An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States, in the Revolutionary War,” passed on the 18th day of March, 1818: and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities, contracts, or debts due to me; nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed; that my occupation and ability to pursue the same, together with the number and other particulars of my family, are in fact and in truth as is particularly described on the back hereof, also subscribed by me.
Bickford Dyer
Sworn to and declared, on the seventh day of June A. D. 1820.
BEFORE
Albion K. Parris
{ U. S. District Judge for the District of Maine.

SCHEDULE of the real and personal estate, (necessary clothing and bedding excepted) belonging to me the subscriber, viz:
Real estate — none — Personal estate — one cow — one pig — a few articles of necessary furniture I have no income and am some in debt Bickford Dyer
Sworn to Before Albion H. Barris U. S. Dist. Judge
SCHEDULE of the family residing with me Bickford Dyer — who, by occupation am a laborer — which I am not able to pursue by reason of old age and infirmity
NAMES. AGES. Capacity of each to contribute to their support. Wife — Dolly — 50 able to do housework Abby — 15 a healthy girl Sworn to Before Albion H. Barris U. S. Dist. Judge

MAINE DISTRICT, ss.
I, JOHN MUSSEY, Junr. Clerk of the District Court of the United States for Maine District, do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath, and the schedules thereto annexed, are truly copied from the Record of the said Court; and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule, is twenty six — dollars and no more — cents.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this seventh — day of June A. D. one thousand eight hundred and twenty.
A handwritten signature in cursive, reading "John Mussey Junr.", with a large, stylized flourish underneath the name.
} Clerk of the U. States District Court for Maine District.

Richard Dyer Private
about Jan'y 76, 1 year, William's 57 Phineas's regt.
say Jan'y 77, 3 years
Capt. G. Smith's Moses regt.
Massachusetts Line
Adm?
15 June 1818.

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
YORK, ss. } ON this fifteenth day of June A. D. 1818, before me the subscriber, Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the first Eastern Circuit in said Commonwealth, personally appeared Richard Dyer aged sixty eight years resident in Simsbury in said county of Yale , who being by me first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the late act of Congress, entitled "an Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War:" — "That he the said Richard Dyer, in the month of April 1775, enlisted as a private soldier in the Continental Army, under Capt. H. Williams of the Regiment commanded by Col. Phoenix of the Massachusetts Line, that he continued to do duty in said company & Reg t until eight months, the time for which he enlisted, expired, when he immediately enlisted again under the same Capt. & in the same Reg t for the further term of one year, during which term he continued to do his duty in said company & Reg t until the term of enlistment expired, when he again enlisted under Capt. George Smith in Col. Joseph Dyer's Reg t of the Massachusetts Line. That he continued to do his duty in said company & Reg t in the various places in which they were stationed until three years, that being the term for which he enlisted expired — when he was honorably discharged at a place called Highlands in the State of New York — which discharge was about twenty years ago, burned with his dwelling house."
That he is reduced in his circumstances and needs the assistance of his country for support, and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services.
Sworn to and declared before me the day and year above said.
Benj a Greene
I, BENJAMIN GREENE, Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the first Eastern Circuit, in the Commonwealth aforesaid, do certify, that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Richard Dyer did serve in the revolutionary war against the common enemy, as he has stated in his declaration aforesaid—and that he is reduced in his circumstances, and needs the assistance of his country for his support.—And I do now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me to the Secretary for the Department of War, pursuant to the directions of the before mentioned act of Congress.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this
fifteenth day of June
Anno Domini, 1818.
Benj a Greene

35 276
Rev INVALID.
File No. 35 276
Birford Dyer
Rev Mr
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 117
[Arrangement of 1870.]